Mass affluent investors, those with $100,000 to $1 million of investable assets, are pessimistic about investing, a survey of 596 individual investors and 610 financial advisers by MFS Investment Management found.

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Younger planners have a lot to offer, but can face numerous hurdles to success, said Joseph D. Pitzl, director of financial planning at Intelligent Financial Strategies.

The launch of a combined securitization platform for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is meant to ease the transition to a new housing finance system. But questions remain about how the mortgage sphere will adapt to the single security.

Readers weigh in on community development at BB&T-SunTrust, consider the role that branches play in bank marketing and debate the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

In a presentation Thursday, co-COO Gordon Smith expanded on Jamie Dimon's recent comments about frustrations in the mortgage market, was upbeat about branch profitability and discussed some of the bank's Chase Pay challenges.

Republicans and Democrats have made constructive inroads toward drafting a stablecoin bill this Congress. The next Congress needs to build on that progress — and think bigger.

Inconsistent rules for calculating bank capital threaten to cut off small banks from a key source of liquidity.

Bank regulators are considering a measure that would rewrite the rules implementing the Community Reinvestment Act. They should consider taking their existing rules seriously.